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1) Coraline
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
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Description
When Coraline steps through a door to find another house strangely similar to her own (only better), things seem marvelous. But there's another mother there, and another father, and they want her to stay and be their little girl. They want to change her and never let her go. Coraline will have to fight with all her wit and courage if she is to save herself and return to her ordinary life.
Author
Series
Spiderwick chronicles volume 3
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
With goblins, trolls, and the house boggart all trying to get them, the Grace children turn to Great Aunt Lucinda for help.
4) The nest
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
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"When wasps come to Steve in a dream offering to fix his sick baby brother, he thinks all he has to do is say yes. But yes may not mean what Steve thinks it means"--
Author
Series
Pandava volume 5
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
Description
The Pandavas call on old friends, make new allies, and face fearsome trials as they embark on a mission to stop the Sleeper from accessing the nectar of immortality, but ultimately Aru must decide who deserves immortality--the devas or the asuras--and an unexpected answer comes from an unexpected place.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
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"Twelve-year-old Aru Shah has a tendency to stretch the truth in order to fit in at school. While her classmates are jetting off to family vacations in exotic locales, she'll be spending her autumn break at home, in the Museum of Ancient Indian Art and Culture, waiting for her mom to return from her latest archeological trip. Is it any wonder that Aru makes up stories about being royalty, traveling to Paris, and having a chauffeur? One day, three...
7) Far far away
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Description
"When Jeremy Johnson Johnson's strange ability to speak to the ghost of Jacob Grimm draws the interest of his classmate, Ginger Boltinghouse, the two find themselves at the center of a series of disappearances in their hometown"--
Author
Series
Dotty Morgan Supernatural sleuth volume 1
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
HELP! Elderton is under attack! French fries are disappearing from ovens, fryers, and freezers. Potatoes go missing right out of the bin in the middle of the day. No one ever sees the thief. The police are baffled. Eleven-year-old Dotty Morgan is ELderton's best (only) supernatural sleuth, a role for which she's trained since a gnome stole her mother's fabric and Dotty took the blame. Eager to solve her first case, Dotty investigates the mysterious...
Author
Series
Last apprentice volume 13
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 11
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Description
"Thomas Ward faces his ultimate test as he and his master prepare to deal with the Fiend once and for all"--
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
720L
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Shortly before her thirteenth birthday, shy and withdrawn Tara is sent to stay with her aunt, uncle, and cousin in her parents' hometown of Willow Falls, where she makes friends and becomes involved with an elderly buyer and seller of collectibles, who seems to be trying to give Tara some kind of mysterious message.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 14
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Description
"New York Times bestseller! Artemis Fowl meets Men in Black in this exhilarating debut middle grade fantasy, the first in a trilogy filled with #blackgirlmagic. Perfect for fans of Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky, the Percy Jackson series, and Nevermoor. Amari Peters has never stopped believing her missing brother, Quinton, is alive. Not even when the police told her otherwise, or when she got in trouble for standing up to bullies who said...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
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Description
When the dead come back to haunt the living, Lockwood and Co. step in . . . For more than fifty years, the country has been affected by a horrifying epidemic of ghosts. A number of Psychic Investigations Agencies have sprung up to destroy the dangerous apparitions. Lucy Carlyle, a talented young agent, arrives in London hoping for a notable career. Instead she finds herself joining the smallest most ramshackle agency in the city, run by the charismatic...
14) Small spaces
Author
Series
Small spaces quartet volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 6
Description
"After suffering a tragic loss, eleven-year-old Ollie only finds solace in books. So when she happens upon a crazed woman at the river threatening to throw a book into the water, Ollie doesn't think--she just acts, stealing the book and running away. As she begins to read the slender volume, Ollie discovers a chilling story about a girl named Beth, the two brothers who both loved her, and a peculiar deal made with "the smiling man," a sinister specter...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Description
"One rainy night, Kazu sees a strange figure in a white kimono sneak out of his house--was he dreaming? Did he see a ghost? The next day at school, the very same person is sitting in his class--and all his friends are convinced that the ghost-girl Akari has been their friend for years. If that isn't weird enough, Kazu learns that his house is in the exact location of an ancient temple called KimyM, which, legend has it, could bring the dead back to...
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Series
Unusual chickens volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
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Description
Through a series of letters, Sophie Brown, age twelve, tells of her family's move to her Great Uncle Jim's farm, where she begins taking care of some unusual chickens with help from neighbors and friends.
17) The hypnotists
Author
Series
The hypnotists volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
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Description
Twelve-year-old Jackson Opus is descended from two powerful hypnotist bloodlines, but he has just begun to realize that he can control other peoples' actions with sometimes frightening results--especially when the head of the Sentia Institute plans to use Jackson for his own benefit.
18) The faeman quest
Author
Series
Faerie Wars chronicles volume 5
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
Description
Stubborn and feisty Mella, the half-faeire half-human daughter of Lord Henry and Queen Holly Blue, has the power to determine the fate of both the faerie and "analogue world" when she travels to the country of Haleklind and discovers rebel forces preparing for war.
19) The last present
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
Formats
Description
Children's birthdays are always strange in Willow Falls, but when Connor's little sister Grace falls into a frozen state on her tenth birthday, Amanda and Leo must travel back in time to find out what force prevented Angelina from casting the blessing that would have protected her.
20) Faerie Lord
Author
Series
Faerie Wars chronicles volume 4
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 15
Description
When a terrible plague takes over the faerie realm and causes its inhabitants to age unnaturally quickly, Henry and Blue must find a cure in order to save the realm.